Why is an Amazonbacked AI startup making Orson Welles fan fiction? | TechCrunch

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- Fable is launching a new AI model that can supposedly generate long, complex narratives.
- Over the next two years, filmmaker Brian Rose plans to use that model to remake the lost footage from “The Magnificent Ambersons.” Remarkably, Fable has not obtained the rights to the film, making this a prospective tech demo that will probably never be released to the general public.
- Even if Welles’ heirs were being consulted and compensated, I’d have zero interest in this new “Ambersons”
On Friday, a startup called Fable announced an ambitious, if headscratching, plan to recreate the lost 43 minutes of Orson Welles classic film The Magnificent Ambersons.Why is a startup that bill [+4133 chars]